tint removal?
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tint removal?
I am wanting to take off the tint from my truck. It looks horrible, and I would like to get rid of the junk.
Anyone know how to take it off and make my windows look good again?
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Kent
Anyone know how to take it off and make my windows look good again?
Thanks
Kent
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my friend had to do it to his 95 gst due to a cop being very anal. it was 15 percent, yes illegal in nc, but you could easily read anything that was on the seat, even at night in a parking lot (for ex. he had a blockbuster movie sitting there, you could read the title).
anyways, simply he just heated up the windows with a blow dryer, and scraped it off with a razor blade. i will give him a call and get more details, but that was the general principle. the biggest thing he said about it though, was patience.
i cant even tell he ever had tint; its really not too hard, just have patience.
anyways, simply he just heated up the windows with a blow dryer, and scraped it off with a razor blade. i will give him a call and get more details, but that was the general principle. the biggest thing he said about it though, was patience.
i cant even tell he ever had tint; its really not too hard, just have patience.
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Use some soapy water in a spray bottle, a heat gun, and flat razor blade in a scraper... I've seen some commercial tint remover at Advance Auto, no idea how it works. Get some buddies, it takes forever.
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I had a tint shop take it off and they charged me close to what it would cost to tint the car. This was on an old Accord. It took them a number of hours to take off 3 windows worth of tint but it looked great.
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i have done many tint removals, what you want to do is get a spray bottle with soapy water, starting in a top corner reove the film, there will be lots of adhesive left behind, to fix that keep the window very wet and with a sharp razor blad remove the adhesive going up and down. use 1 to 2 blades a window to prevent scratching. if you have rear defroster lines you cant use a razor blade on that, if you want to know how to remove that just ask. a tint shop should charge 10 a window for removal or 100 for a whole car.
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